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. 2022 Jun 16:13:861447.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.861447. eCollection 2022.

Relationship Between Proactive Personality and Entrepreneurial Intentions in College Students: Mediation Effects of Social Capital and Human Capital

Ya-Fei Luo  1 , Jianhao Huang  2 , Sunyu Gao  2
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Relationship Between Proactive Personality and Entrepreneurial Intentions in College Students: Mediation Effects of Social Capital and Human Capital

Ya-Fei Luo et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

The research aims to explore the influence mechanism of proactive personality on the entrepreneurial intentions of college students. Adopting proactive personality scale, social capital scale, human capital scale, and entrepreneurial intention scale, this research tested valid samples of 300 Chinese college students. The results revealed that proactive personality exerted a significant and positive impact on the entrepreneurial intentions. Social capital played a partial mediating role between the proactive personality and the entrepreneurial intentions. Human capital also played a partial mediating role between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intentions. Social capital and human capital exerted a chain mediation effect between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intentions. The result of this research offers valuable insights to the study of the influence of college students' proactive personality on entrepreneurial intentions and provides entrepreneurship education management in colleges with specific practical suggestions so as to improve entrepreneurial intentions among college students.

Keywords: chain mediation effect; entrepreneurial intention; human capital; proactive personality; social capital.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Research framework. PP, Proactive Personality; EI, Entrepreneurial Intention; SC, Social Capital; and HC, Human Capital.
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Main effect of the PP on EI. ***p < 0.001; PP, Proactive Personality; EI, Entrepreneurial Intention.
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The chain mediation model. **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; PP, Proactive Personality; EI, Entrepreneurial Intention; SC, Social Capital; and HC, Human Capital.
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